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Synovitis in secondary syphilis

Year: 1979

Type: article

Abstract: Polyarthritis and tenosynovitis were seen as the presenting complaints in 7 patients with secondary syphilis. Synovial needle biopsy was obtained in 3 cases and showed mild synovitis with infiltration by lymphocytes, plasma cells, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes; vascular congestion; and slightly increased synovial lining cells. In addition, electron microscopy in these synovial membranes showed many necrotic polymorphonuclear leukocytes, much interstitial debris and fibrin, and in 2 patients, bodies suggestive of Treponema pallidum in the interstitium and in vessel lumens.

Source: Arthritis & Rheumatism

DOI: 10.1002/art.1780220210

Authors: Antonio J. Reginato, H. Ralph Schumacher, Sergio Jimenez, Kenneth Maurer

Institutions: United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Veterans Health Administration, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, University of Chile

Language: English

Topic: Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1978219632

FWCI: 2.287

Cites: 13

Cited by: 49

Related to: 10